[The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me]
Year:
2013
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Viking Books for Young Readers
Year of publication:
2009
Pages:
96
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Billy befriends a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey. They explain to him that they form a society dedicated to cleaning windows. He accompanies them on their first job: cleaning the hundreds of windows of the Duke of Hampshire's mansion. A little story full of imagination and humor, illustrated by the renowned Quentin Blake.
Author: Rafael Jiménez Asenjo, Spain
Update on: May 2022